Pulling from the phone probably won't be an option.

unstripped libxul.so is about 700 Mb (for a non-debug emulator build). Most of 
our phones don't have enough space to store anything that big.

We'd need to have these on a server someplace and be able to pull from the 
server.

Dave Hylands

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Benoit Girard" <bgir...@mozilla.com>
> To: "James Burke" <jrbu...@gmail.com>
> Cc: "fxos-perf" <fxos-p...@mozilla.com>, "Dave Huseby" <dhus...@mozilla.com>, 
> dev-b2g@lists.mozilla.org
> Sent: Tuesday, April 8, 2014 11:43:39 AM
> Subject: Re: [b2g] a proposal on one tool to rule them all
> 
> All that needed for that is to ship these builds without stripping the
> symbols (like we already do for mac/linux/fennec nightlies) and to modify
> profile.sh to support pulling all the information from the phone.
> 
> 
> On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 2:10 PM, James Burke < jrbu...@gmail.com > wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 10:34 AM, Dave Huseby < dhus...@mozilla.com > wrote:
> > Thoughts? I would really like to get some feedback on this. If we
> > think this is a good idea, it will dominate the perf dev-tools effort
> > for the foreseeable future as it would be a tool useful for both Mozilla
> > engineers (e.g. fxos-perf team, gaia team, etc) and 3rd party app
> > developers.
> 
> One thing that also might help make the whole perf capture easier to
> do today, without needing to expand the tooling:
> 
> It would be nice to have a way to get symbols for use in the
> profile.sh workflow without needing to do a local build myself.
> Perhaps provide them as an option for engineering pvt builds.
> 
> For some of us gaia developers, needing to maintain a local build of
> b2g on a laptop (plus the extra hitches if using latest OS X) means it
> is enough of a barrier that I have not done it recently, but at the
> same time have wanted to do some perf captures.
> 
> James
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